"I didn't know which way was up or down and thought that was it, I'm going to die – I had given up and remember thinking, I hope it's quick.". The third battleship in line, the HMS Valiant was just 150 yards away, spotted the boat and immediately signaled the Barham and altered course to ram.
Richard Laland had a miracle escape when his ship was sunk off the coast of Egypt in 1941, It's more important than ever to stay informed - Get free LeicestershireLive alerts direct to your inbox.
Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Buying out his commission in 1947, he settled down with his late wife, Lilly, whom he had married in All Saints Church, Melton Road, in 1942. HMS Royal Oak was sunk by in Scapa Flow in October 1939 by U-47 commanded by Gunther Prien. Jeevan Vasagar.
You are glad to have been lucky and to be still alive.. Coupled with the belief that the British intended to make an amphibious landing at Algeria to trap Axis forces in a pincer, Hitler declared an emergency.
"I saw one of my shipmates in the water and asked him, 'where's the ship?'
Mediterranean. The team which located the wreck 3,000 metres below … Recycling and household waste centres were closed for some of the first lockdown, Coronavirus case confirmed at Glen Hills Primary School in Glen Parva, 'We are a school that has always been extra vigilant, we are doing the best we can in very difficult times', Mum's holiday hell after she breaks spine in Turkey, 'I knew something had broken, I felt it and I heard it', Two men arrested in Earl Shilton, near Hinckley, on suspicion of kidnap. Thereafter, she saw some action in Libya, where her 15 inch guns were put to good effect against Rommels forces entrenched in Bardia. "By the time we got on deck, the ship was listing at a 45 degree angle. The enemy struck at 4.25pm as Richard was on a tea break and talking with a friend.
HMS Barham was sunk by a U-Boat in 1941. The third battleship sunk was the HMS Prince of Wales, the most powerful and modern warship in the Royal Navy when she was torpedoed and bombed by Japanese aircraft. Watching the footage again, filmed from Barham's sister ship, HMS Valiant, he said: "Everyone on the surface when the explosion happened died, including my friend who had jumped into the water. The results appalled the entire crew the U-331 was at an unprecedented depth of 820 feet. The HMS Barham turns over and the magazine section explodes, obliterating the ship.
Tiesenhausen ordered for a second reading from the forward room compartment. This is the only British battleship sunk by the U-boat during this war. When Richard came round, he was underwater. This is the only British battleship sunk by the U-boat during this war.
Please Register or Log in to add a comment. However, as the ship plunged to the sea floor, a surge of water pushed Richard upwards. One torpedo missed, but three others found its target on her broadside.
He fired all four torpedoes, and immediately the U-331 popped to the surface, having just released four tons of weight from the boat. Von Tiesenhausen anxiously waited for news of the sinking to be announced by the Admiralty.
"We were standing by a ladder two decks below on the mess deck when there was a huge explosion," he said. Various shots of HMS (H.M.S) Hood, the £6,000,000 warship.
Having been alerted by the sounds of heavy screws, the U-331 chased down on its bearing.
Meanwhile, von Tiesenhausen did not sit around to watch his kill. The U-331, commanded by von Tiesenhausen was one of the Type VIIs who made its harrowing entry into the Mediterranean. "I'm one of only two survivors from the ship left," he said. Welcome to the HMS Barham Association website. Our. explains more about how we use your data, and your rights.
According to the manufacturers specifications, they should have been crushed by now. In the meantime, the HMS Barham swerved to avoid the incoming torpedoes. The new measures are set to start on Thursday. "If I hadn't dived headfirst and knocked myself out, I would be dead, too.". It was a dangerous situation as the safe diving depth of the Type VIIC was 330 feet (100 meters). "It always takes me back to that day in November 1941," he said. "There was my friend Ted Clow, from Oadby, but he died last December, aged 93. They were astonished, not only to have survived the lethal depths below, but the hull which should have been crushed, did not as much as spring a leak. HMS Cumberland undergoes "Pre-Wetting" trials - a new radioactivity protection process. During the Second World War, a spate of misfortunes had dogged the HMS Barham. Barham was actually the 2nd British battleship to be sunk by a U0-Boat. During the Second World War, the British possessed the most powerful navy in the world indeed many battleships were attacked during the war, but only three were ever sunk. A fourth thunderous explosion resulted, probably the magazine going up, disintegrating the Barham, taking 862 men with her in three minutes. "We climbed over the guard rail and started running down the side of the ship. Dr Evatt visits HMS Shropshire and addresses crew. Dramatic pictures of battleship HMS Barham sunk by U-boat attack.
Lilly died in 2007, aged 86. Richard will be reading the Royal British Legion epitaph, "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old", at Buckminster Road Baptist Church on Sunday, during the act of remembrance. We always welcome comments and more information about our films.All posts are reactively checked. Every available U-boat, which numbered to fifty, was committed to the task and diverted to the Mediterranean basin. The enemy struck at 4.25pm as Richard was on a tea break and talking with a friend. The connection of the U-boat threat with these sinkings was clearly evident as of these three battleships sunk, two were the direct result of U-boat attacks. The British withheld news of the sinking, and in the absence of evidence, Donitz withheld his praise saying only that the attack was very satisfactory. says, Just a slight correction. She was again attacked and damaged by Luftwaffe aircraft on May 1941, during the German airborne invasion of Crete. Your comment states: This is the only British battleship sunk by the U-boat during this war. The British 8th Army and Rommels Afrika Korps were locked in a stalemate. "It was the strangest thing.
Register now. After modernization during 1927-28, she served in the Mediterranean until war broke out in 1939, when she was reassigned to the Home Fleet. The battleship heels over and explodes. Soon, the U-331 surfaced to periscope depth and spotted a procession of three British battleships flanked by eight destroyers.
"We had no idea there were U-boats in the area.". The 92-year-old, from Leicester, miraculously escaped death when the ship was sunk by a German U-boat torpedo off the coast of Egypt on November 25, 1941. Old Sandancer. Control of Africa was important to the British, who had intended to use it as a staging area to counterattack the Axis by first crushing Italy, then Germany by attacking through the soft underbelly of Italy and the Balkans. Full title reads: "HMS BARHAM 1914 - 1941".
Beginning on November 10 1941, and for the next 40 days, the Axis forces combined had sunk the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, an escort carrier Audacity, two battleships the Prince of Wales and Barham, the battlecruiser Repulse, three cruisers the Dunedin, Neptune and Galatea, seriously damaged two battleships the Queen Elizabeth and Valiant, plus damage to many other warships. The opening of the U-Boat offensive in the Mediterranean coincided with the highwater mark of Axis victories at sea. A heart stopping sight, von Tiesenhausen carefully threaded between two destroyers and eased his boat to the first battleship in line, the Queen Elizabeth.
Rommels Afrika Korps dug in at El Agheila and another stalemate in the North African desert campaign ensued. But the crew sensed that the boat was still continuing its descend but the depth gauge said they were level at 250 feet. The only way the comment can be correct is if "the U-boat" refers to U331, as HMS Barham was certainly the only British battleship sunk by this particular U-boat during the war. Richard grew up in Penrith Road, Belgrave, joining the Royal Navy as a boy seaman, aged 15. U-boat captains used to joke of an itchy neck that could only be cured by administering the red, white and black ribbon of the Knight's cross on the neck.
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